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I have a feeling that using monsters as the basis for my experiments was the wrong approach. So here is an experiment based on non-monster data. Something...just for you.
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- Experiment No. 123 (boss battle)
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This experiment is another version of Zack. He can heal himself (Regen) and use a Phoenix Down (which really is the biggest pain). His frequent attacks are Energy and Exploder Blade, but he'll also use regular sword attacks. Use Regen on yourself, or be prepared with X-Potions or your best Cure spell. There is a slight pause after the experiment attacks, so use this opportunity to land a Costly Punch. Take a step back and wait again for the same opportunity to use another Costly Punch. Continue this strategy until the experiment falls. If he managed to use a Phoenix Down, you'll have to continue the battle, but it should only take one more Costly Punch to end it permanently.

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10:38 PM GMT on August 10, 2012storms are headed south bond into setex/swla |
By: Dr. Jeff Masters , 1:57 PM GMT on August 10, 2012
Tropical Depression Seven continues westward across the central tropical Atlantic with little change in appearance. Looking remarkably like the tropical depression that became Tropical Storm Ernesto last week, TD 7 has a limited region of heavy thunderstorms, as seen on satellite loops. A large amount of dry air to the west and north is visible on water vapor satellite loops, and this dry air is interfering with TD 7's heavy thunderstorms. Wind shear is a light 5 - 10 knots, which is favorable for intensification. Ocean temperatures are 26.5°C, which is a bit on the cool side, but these temperatures are 0.5° warmer than on Thursday. Winds at the Middle Atlantic buoy 41041 peaked at 29 mph, gusting to 38 mph, at 1:50 am EDT this Friday morning, when the center of TD 7 passed about 40 miles to the south. TD 7 will pass about 60 miles south of buoy 41040 near midnight tonight. The first hurricane hunter mission into TD 7 is scheduled for Saturday morning.
Figure 1. Morning satellite image of TD 7.
Forecast for TD 7
TD 7 formed about 400 miles east-northeast of where Ernesto became a tropical depression, as seen on our wundermap. Atmospheric and oceanic conditions are currently quite similar to what Ernesto experienced, and I expect TD 7 will struggle with dry air like Ernesto did. The SHIPS model predicts that shear will remain light through tonight, then rise to the moderate range on Saturday, when the storm will encounter upper-level southwesterly winds associated with a trough of low pressure. However, ocean temperatures will warm to 28°C, which may partially counteract the increase in shear, as far as maintaining a favorable environment for development. Dry air and shear may be significant enough to destroy TD 7 on Sunday, as predicted by the GFS and ECMWF models. These models tried to kill off Ernesto in a similar situation last week, so I am inclined to believe TD 7 will survive for the coming five days, but struggle. The official NHC forecast of a 45 mph tropical storm moving through the Lesser Antilles Islands Saturday night and Sunday is a reasonable one.
Figure 2. Morning satellite image of Invest 93L.
A strong tropical wave in the far Eastern Atlantic that emerged off the coast of Africa Thursday night was designated Invest 93L by NHC. In their 8 am Tropical Weather Outlook, NHC gave 93L a 50% chance of becoming a tropical depression by Sunday morning. Satellite loops show a pronounced spin to the atmosphere at mid levels, but little in the way of heavy thunderstorm activity. The latest Saharan Air Layer Analysis from the University of Wisconsin shows that while the atmosphere immediately surrounding the disturbance is moist, there is a large area of dry air from the Sahara to the west and north. This dry air will be a significant impediment to development during the coming week. The ECMWF model shows some weak development of 93L over the coming week, and predicts a general west-northwesterly track. The storm may be something Bermuda needs to be concerned about in eight or so days.
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storms are headed south bond into setex/swla |
10August12pmGMT's 13.7n480w was re-evaluated&altered at ~1pmGMT 10August06pmGMT's 13.6n48.6w-13.7n50.9w are now the most recent positions (Vectors and straightline projections have been corrected from the previous mapping) Derived from (NHC) ATCF data for TropicalDepressionSeven for 10August6pmGMT: MinimumPressure remained 1009millibars MaxSusWinds held at 30knots(35mph)56km/h Vector changed from 270.3°firstname.lastname@example.com(41.5km/h) to 272.8°email@example.com(41.5km/h) POS-Trinidad :: GND-Grenada :: BGI-Barbados :: SLU-St.Lucia The easternmost dot on the connected;omes is where 92L became AL07 The next dot to the right is where AL07 became TD.7 The easternmost dot on the longest line is TD.7's most recent position The longest line is a straightline projection through TD.7's 2 most recent positions to its closest approach (within 18miles or 29 kilometres) to a coastline 9August6pmGMT: TD.7 had been headed for passage over GrantleyAdamsInternationalAirport (bottomBGIblob) 10August12amGMT: TD.7 had been headed for passage over Bathsheba (middleBGIblob) 10August6amGMT: TD.7 had been headed for passage over HighCliffPoint (topGNDdumbbell) 10August12pmGMT: 10August12pmGMT: TD.7 was heading for passage over LittleBay (topBGIblob) 10August6pmGMT: TD.7 was heading for passage over LinnisPoint,Dennery(town) in ~23hours from now (when this comment was posted) Copy&paste pos-10.595n61.023w, bgi-13.09n59.457w-13.198n59.488w-13.31n59.579w, gnd-12.191n61.602w,slu,axa, 13.7n41.7w-13.7n42.9w, 13.7n42.9w-13.7n44.6w, 13.7n44.6w-13.6n46.3w, 13.6n46.3w-13.6n48.6w, 13.6n48.6w-13.7n50.9w, 13.6n48.6w-13.89n60.883w into the GreatCircleMapper for a larger-scale map and other information The previous mapping for comparison |
Quoting washingtonian115: Here Here Im with you on this one!! +1000 |
Quoting ncstorm: If we could beg, borrow or steal a decent anti-cyclone over the GOM it would make use of all the moisture thrashing about. Anything for even clouds, if we can't have rain.... |
Quoting Jedkins01: +1000 Quickest way to get banned from this site is by talking politics. jrweatherman should not have started this garbage. |
Quoting CrozetDutch: Do you know what that term means, or could mean? I'm only asking because one definition of it is a vulgar slur that could get you banned from this site. I won't report you (I still believe in freedom of speech) but others may and have the right to try because of the site rules. |
two surface lows near florida |
found this on the weather channal explaning whats in the western caribbean. An upper-level trough which brought heavy rain to the northern Caribbean islands, and whose strong high-altitude winds "sheared" the remnants of Florence, has now, on its southern periphery, contributed to the formation of a concentrated area of convection (thunderstorms) over the western Caribbean. Satellite loops show that cluster of tstorms spinning, i.e. what meteorologists call a "mesoscale convective vortex" (MCV) has formed, which can sometimes lead to surface low pressure forming. That's what happened with the recent tropical storm wannabe in the Bahamas and Florida. On the other hand, such features can dissipate after a few hours. We'll watch to see what this one does. |
Quoting PalmBeachWeather:Like any reef fish, they could have cigutera (SP?), which is very painful if you ingest fish with the bacteria (I think it's a bacteria). You can get it from snapper, grouper any reef fish. Mostly in the Caribbean, people get it from Barracuda. They prey on reef fish so they accumulate more. Just eat the little fish.:) |
Quoting BahaHurican: you know so when I forecast it its wrong I don't think so |
I say TS watches for the Islands of Barbados, St. Vincet, St. Lucia, Martinique, Dominica and Guadeloupe at 5pm advisory |
Quoting kwgirl: When I was a kid (early teen) I spent a week down there, camped on the beach, the Fort was my playground, the ocean my swimming pool. I understand they have roped off a lot of it now, for many reasons, to protect it. It is a very special place, and it would be a shame if the storms damaged it. |
Quoting CrozetDutch: Stop fussing about politics and stick to weather, the other major sources are no better, just from a different end of the political spectrum. |
I finally got my first good storm since Monday, got nailed with plenty of heavy rain and most of all a great light show with numerous hits close to me. Despite the fact that below average coverage was expected into to the weekend, I guess we are finally going to be headed back to where we should, which is great because August has started way too dry after having so much rain in June and July over much of the area |
Quoting BahaHurican:Fort Jefferson is in the Dry Tortugas, about 70 miles west of Key West. It is a National Park, but the Government doesn't have the money to repair it. One of the curtain walls is falling down. They get hit with a lot of hurricanes out there. It is beautiful. Google it! |
Quoting VAbeachhurricanes:Actually, I don't need any of it here... lots of wx to talk about these days. |
Quoting LargoFl: Yes, as you say its been booming here all morning and my weather alert has been going off every 5 min. |
Quoting barbamz: Did you read his memories on Katrina? Impressive. http://28storms.com/about/ I just read Jason's memoirs of Katrina. They are more than just impressive. I teared-up when I finished reading the piece. If the lad ever tires of met, he could have a helluva future as a writer. |
Quoting WxGeekVA:Might lose some of its punch while crossing the hostile zone, but would rise again like his predessor, good old Ernesto in the western Carobbean but in a more northern track of course..., |
wow looks like TD 7 is a stronger system it not even reached the bouy yet already seing pressure drop to 1012mb and still falling with wind at 19kts bouy Station 41040 located at 14.477 N 53.008 W (14%uFFFD28'38" N 53%uFFFD0'28" W) the TD is at 13.7N 50.9W Link |
Quoting LargoFl: I hope you're right. I'll take rain over oppressive heat anytime! |
Quoting MississippiWx:We're bored while waiting to see what happens next w/ our three systems... lol Quoting HurricaneDean07:I think he actually was just kidding... really.... lol Quoting jrweatherman:Just not in the WX blog, please. You will get banned if u keep it up. Look: pple have been told not to talk about the OLYMPICS in this blog... what makes u think politics is ok??? Sheesh... |
Quoting PalmBeachWeather: We're also losing the battle here in the Virgin Islands with the Lion Fish. Nasty, nasty critters. Seems you can't snorkel anywhere without seeing one now. Lindy |
Quoting SFLWeatherman: You posted earlier that something off to the SE was suppose to cross fla into the GOM. Is this it? |
Quoting VAbeachhurricanes: Actually, the nonsense is posted uncited "research" as fact, then being indignant when asked for citations or verification. Also, it is complete nonsense to post political attacks and questionable information on a WEATHER BLOG. |
Quoting washingtonian115:..the whole east coast is getting it, some real badly too |
Quoting PalmBeachWeather:or I could say the same about the other "guy" but this aint the place or the forum for politics... |
JeffMasters has created a new entry. |
Quoting LargoFl:Big downpour here at ACH. |
Quoting Hurricane1956:..yes i think the NWS said back in march..for us to be on the lookout this season for the local storms that form near us |
Quoting PalmBeachWeather: Cayman Islands - Cayman Brac - Yes - another one from Cayman |
Quoting CajunCrawfishhunter: Right, and no one ever talks about anything other than weather here. Anyway, here is the big picture: 07L dealing with a lot of dry air to its north and west. A nice slow moving cold front is draped along the eastern CONUS. And a surface trough south of Cuba is being enhanced by the divergence that is being created by a TUTT of to its NE. |
We had some very heavy rain this morning.I'm talking about torrential.When I drove through rock creek park today the water was still unsettled and rather high.In some parts you can't tell because it's humid outside.It's threatening to storm again to.The clouds have been ominous,and it's also been windy. |
Quoting SSideBrac:SS, Where are you? |
Quoting HondosGirl:..stay safe up there ..lots of lightning today with these storms, went outside before and I cant remember the sun being THIS hot before, and ive been here for a long time, the strong heat and ALOT of humidty..the storms are strong, and possibly dangerous today |
Quoting kmanislander: Yeah, I was mentioning that last night during the night shift. It's often difficult for models to predict the movement of TUTTs accurately. They are often times to quick with moving them. |
Quoting PalmBeachWeather: Whoops - checks all my body parts, heart beat etc - fine so far - but TY for tip |
Quoting Abacosurf:..looks like it means they see rain but its all around the wave but its hard to tell if the rains are WITH the wave |
An interesting race is developing between a ULL digging down from the N of TD7 and the depression itself trying to scoot to the West underneath it before it can impart too much shear over the circulation. At the present forward speed TD7 may win that race. See WV loop here |
It's rumbling up again here in Northwest Florida. Expecting today's third round of heavy rain and lighting to arrive shortly. |
Quoting Hurricane1956:Actually a tiny spin there and just SSE of key west. |
Quoting LargoFl:Very interesting,it seems that all the action this Hurricane Season will be in the Caribbean??,to close for comfort!!!!,for us here in South Florida. |
Time to sit back - shrug off any prevailing "Caribbean blob phobia" and observe, identify, assess and act(as required). |


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dc.contributor.author | Vilhjálmsson, Hannes Högni | en_US |
dc.contributor.other | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. Program in Media Arts and Sciences. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2006-03-24T16:11:30Z | |
dc.date.available | 2006-03-24T16:11:30Z | |
dc.date.copyright | 2003 | en_US |
dc.date.issued | 2003 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/29649 | |
dc.description | Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2003. | en_US |
dc.description | Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-175). | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | One of the most important roles played by technology is connecting people and mediating their communication with one another. Building technology that mediates conversation presents a number of challenging research and design questions. Apart from the fundamental issue of what exactly gets mediated, two of the more crucial questions are how the person being mediated interacts with the mediating layer and how the receiving person experiences the mediation. This thesis is concerned with both of these questions and proposes a theoretical framework of mediated conversation by means of automated avatars. This new approach relies on a model of face-to-face conversation, and derives an architecture for implementing these features through automation. First the thesis describes the process of face-to-face conversation and what nonverbal behaviors contribute to its success. It then presents a theoretical framework that explains how a text message can be automatically analyzed in terms of its communicative function based on discourse context, and how behaviors, shown to support those same functions in face-to-face conversation, can then be automatically performed by a graphical avatar in synchrony with the message delivery. An architecture, Spark, built on this framework demonstrates the approach in an actual system design that introduces the concept of a message transformation pipeline, abstracting function from behavior, and the concept of an avatar agent, responsible for coordinated delivery and continuous maintenance of the communication channel. A derived application, MapChat, is an online collaboration system where users represented by avatars in a shared virtual environment can chat and manipulate an interactive map while their avatars generate face-to-face behaviors. | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | (cont.) A study evaluating the strength of the approach compares groups collaborating on a route-planning task using MapChat with and without the animated avatars. The results show that while task outcome was equally good for both groups, the group using these avatars felt that the task was significantly less difficult, and the feeling of efficiency and consensus were significantly stronger. An analysis of the conversation transcripts shows a significant improvement of the overall conversational process and significantly fewer messages spent on channel maintenance in the avatar groups. The avatars also significantly improved the users' perception of each others' effort. Finally, MapChat with avatars was found to be significantly more personal, enjoyable, and easier to use. The ramifications of these findings with respect to mediating conversation are discussed. | en_US |
dc.description.statementofresponsibility | by Hannes Högni. Vilhjálmsson. | en_US |
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dc.publisher | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | en_US |
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dc.rights.uri | http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 | |
dc.subject | Architecture. Program in Media Arts and Sciences. | en_US |
dc.title | Avatar augmented online conversation | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
dc.description.degree | Ph.D. | en_US |
dc.contributor.department | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. Program in Media Arts and Sciences. | en_US |
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When IT disasters strike, are Middle East businesses ready to respond?
Imagine employees forced to sit idle as potentially lucrative new business calls come in, customer service teams stopped from responding to requests from key accounts and business-critical data forever lost. This may seem unlikely, but according to EMC research, such a scenario is all too much of a possibility for the majority of businesses.
In a research study conducted in 2012, 82 per cent of organisations in the Middle East, Turkey and Morocco said they were not confident that they could recover from a disaster while 64 per cent of respondents were said to have lost data or suffered systems downtime in the 12 months prior to the study.
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The Outsiders (1983)
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Directed by: Francis Ford Coppola
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The story describes a gang conflict in Tulsa, Oklahoma, between the Socs (pronounced "soashes"), rich kids from Tulsa's affluent Southside neighborhood (today's Midtown), and the Greasers, boys from poor families who live on the west side of the railroad tracks. References to movies playing in cinemas suggest that the year is 1965 or 1966.[2]
These are the members of the gangs, starting with the Greasers: Ponyboy Curtis (C. Thomas Howell) is a sensitive, poetically inclined 14-year-old who lives with his older brother Sodapop (Rob Lowe), a high-school dropout, and their oldest brother Darrel (Patrick Swayze). Darrel's relationship with Soda and Ponyboy has been strained since their parents died and he took over responsibility for the household. Johnny Cade (Ralph Macchio) is a 16-year-old whose parents neglect/abuse him and frequently argue with each other. Dallas Winston (Matt Dillon) is an older, hotheaded troublemaker. Keith "Two-Bit" Matthews (Emilio Estevez) is a funloving wisecracker who thinks the world is a joke, and Steve Randle (Tom Cruise) is Sodapop's best friend and works at a gas station. The Socs include Bob Sheldon (Leif Garrett) and Randy Adderson (Darren Dalton), whose girlfriends are Sherri "Cherry" Valance (Diane Lane) and Marcia (Michelle Meyrink).
The story begins with three confrontations between Greasers and Socials. In the first incident, five Socs gang up on Ponyboy and cut his neck with a switchblade. Johnny was attacked similarly a month earlier. The second event occurs when Bob and Randy find Cherry and Marcia walking home from a movie with Johnny, Ponyboy, and Two-Bit. Cherry and Marcia defuse this situation by going home with the Soc boys. Finally, Ponyboy and Johnny start to run away after Darrel knocks Ponyboy down during an argument. As the two boys rest in a park, Bob, Randy, and two other Socs attack them, and Bob is stabbed and killed by Johnny while trying to drown Ponyboy.
With advice and supplies from Dallas, Ponyboy and Johnny hide out in an abandoned church in a nearby town for a few days. At the church, Ponyboy reads Gone with the Wind and quotes the Robert Frost poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay." After Dallas arrives with news that Cherry has offered to support the boys in court, the church accidentally catches fire with some children trapped inside, and Johnny is hospitalized with severe burns and a broken back after he, Ponyboy, and Dallas rescue them. The boys are praised for their heroism, but Johnny is charged with manslaughter for killing Bob, and Ponyboy and Soda are threatened with being moved to a boy's home.
Meanwhile, Bob's death has sparked calls from the Socials for a "rumble". The Greasers win, but Ponyboy is injured, so Dallas drives him to the hospital, where the boys visit Johnny. Having lost interest in fighting, Johnny is unimpressed by the victory. He dies after encouraging Ponyboy to "stay gold", referring to the Frost poem. Unable to bear Johnny's death, Dallas robs a convenience store at gunpoint and is killed by the police.
Sometime later, Ponyboy is cleared of wrongdoing in Bob's death and allowed to stay with his brothers. After scenes in which Ponyboy and his brothers reconcile after an argument and Ponyboy finds a letter from Johnny saying that saving the children was worth sacrificing his own life, the film ends with a repeat of the first scene, in which Ponyboy writes a school report describing his recent experiences.t Johnny wrote for him before he died.


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Control of Free Spectral Range of tong Period Fiber Grating by Cladding Mode Waveguide Dispersion
Journal of the Optical Society of Korea, Vol. 7, Issue 2, pp. 89-96 (2003)
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A new method to control the free spectral range of a long period fiber grating is proposed and theoretically analyzed. As the refractive index decreases radially outward in the silica cladding due to graded doping of fluorine, waveguide dispersion in the cladding modes was modified to result in the effective indices change and subsequently the phase matching conditions for coupling with the core mode in a long period fiber grating. Enlargement of the free spectral range in a long period fiber grating was theoretically confirmed.
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(050.2770) Diffraction and gratings : Gratings
(060.2340) Fiber optics and optical communications : Fiber optics components
(230.0230) Optical devices : Optical devices
Original Manuscript: April 8, 2003
Published: June 1, 2003
H. Jeong and K. Oh, "Control of Free Spectral Range of tong Period Fiber Grating by Cladding Mode Waveguide Dispersion," J. Opt. Soc. Korea 7, 89-96 (2003)
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